MESSAGE TO THE GOP.

First of all, my sincere condolences to the relatives of the people so callously murdered in the Boston Bombings. I will pray for the dead and their loved ones.

Then, here is a Timeless Conservative Message for Boehner & Co. and a far too big number of spineless GOP personages, whether or not in power.



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THE 'DR' KERMIT GOSNELL TRIAL: "IF DR. GOSNELL HAD WALKED INTO A NURSERY AND SHOT SEVEN INFANTS WITH AN AR-15, IT WOULD BE NATIONAL NEWS AND THE SUBJECT OF PRESIDENTIAL HAND-WRINGING."

That quote is from Rep. Smith (R-New Jersey) and if you haven't heard yet about the Kermit Gosnell trial that's because the MainStreamMedia isn't doing its work, and that's not surprising. After all, what happened at Gosnell's 'clinic' is one of the inevitable consequences of legally enabling abortion on a nationwide scale. It's proof, for the umpteenth time, of the disastrous effects on society of yet another leftist dada.

It's appalling. Pundit and Pundette is just one among many rightwing blogs that have been trying for months to make this abhorrent story known nationally. I DO hope it will get a fair amount of attention in Europe too, but I doubt it given the high degree of enlightenment here. Anyway:

"...Dr. Bernard Nathanson made history in 1984 when he narrated a film of an ultrasound which showed a child silently screaming as it was being aborted.

The film was big news. It got the nation's attention and the issue of fetal pain was hotly debated. Some denied that the child was experiencing pain, but it was generally agreed upon that if that was the case, it was a terrible thing that shouldn't be allowed to happen.

Fast forward almost thirty years to this blood-curdling testimony from Gosnell henchwoman Sherry West. It's enough to break America's heart, if it still has one:

The proprietor, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, asked her to help him with something and directed her to another room. There an 18-to-24-inch baby, who did not yet have eyes*, was lying in a clear glass pan, she recalled in horror. It was “screeching, making this noise” that “sounded like a little alien," she said. It “really freaked me out,” she said, causing her to leave the room.
"Making this noise" "like an alien"? That's called crying. It's what human babies do when they're in distress, in this case, the ultimate distress. The "aliens" here are the inhuman monsters who caused that distress.

So . . . if a baby screams during an outside-the-uterus "abortion," does it make a sound? Or, to put it another way, if an abortionist goes on trial for murdering infants, but the media refuses to cover it, is it really happening? And does America care?

This time the scream is loud and clear, but nobody's listening.

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Hang on -- America has a heart, after all, and the Washington Post is all over it.

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(*Huh?)

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A headline you'll never see in the American press:

'Fetuses and blood all over the place': Medic's graphic account of 'be-heading live babies' at abortion 'House of Horrors' in Philadelphia
Brace yourselves:

Massof, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to the murder of two newborns at the clinic, revealed Thursday that he witnessed an abortion at 26 weeks - two weeks beyond the 24-week limit in the state.

He also claimed he saw about 100 babies born alive and then 'snipped' with surgical scissors in the back of the neck, to ensure their 'demise'.

He also spoke of the gruesome scenes at the clinic which was allegedly found dirty and rundown with rusting surgical instruments.

'It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place. It is literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body,' he told NBC.

He also alleges the clinic's ultrasound machine was manipulated to make fetuses appear smaller and therefore younger.

Dear God in heaven."

Abortion is MURDER. Get this story OUT.


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BELGIAN STATE CONTROLLED TV BROADCASTER ELATED OVER MARGARET THATCHER'S DEATH.

Well, to be sure, Belgium's prime state controlled TV broadcaster 'EEN' ('One'), at least did say at the very beginning that the death of Britain's first female PM caused 'mixed reactions'.

What mixed reactions you will ask?

Oh, check out for yourself. Just for the fun of it, I took screenshots as today's newsreel's progress strip went forward and the Belgian population received its daily dose of fair and balanced information. TA-DAAAAA!!!!!





The caption reads: 'JOY BECAUSE OF THATCHER'S DEATH'.




Bozos dancing and cheering the passing of the UK's first female PM.




A very representative specimen of a stiff upper lip member of the British Aristocracy is of the opinion 'that's how it is. We all have to go once'.




'What's her legacy here?' Here? Nothing.'




Asked for his opinion, yet another True Briton, upon asked what Thatcher's reign resulted in, summed it up neatly: 'The destruction of North England, of worker's families, of Liverpool'.




'Thatcher leaves me cold, after what she did to Wales and the miners'.




'Places like Grimethorpe are ghost towns.'




Then it's the turn of a Union Boss, IIRC in Yorkshire: 'There will be many in the miners' villages who won't shed a tear...'




'But who will drink on her passing and say: Good Riddance!'




'Margaret Thatchers dead. LOL.'


I've been battling cancer since late November and frankly, after yet another day's hard work, and coming home late after visiting several clients, I just wanted to sit down and relax a little. This newsreel however, seen at noon, baffled me so much that I felt I really had to preserve the key shots for posterity. May, in a saner age, people watch them and realize how all over the western world such blatant leftist bias and the deliberate spreading of falsehoods to the gullible population really, truly was an omnipresent feature of our times, not only in Belgium. To be sure, right at the beginning of the newsreel there was one - one - chap sitting in a cafe who thought that Thatcher 'was someone who meant what she said and did not come back upon it'. It could be catalogued as s positive opinion. See? In EEN's news report there was room for the good and the bad, which in its vocabulary means 'fair and balanced'.

You can also learn from this coverage that at the time of Thatcher's tenure all British workers were miners, and that apparently the entire country lies in waste at the moment.

Goodbye for now. I only wish I had the time and energy to provide a similar set of screenshots of EEN's coverage of Hugo Chavez's death.



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SATURDAY NIGHT WHIRLPOOL PRODUCTIONS, SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS.

Number one tonight is Whirlpool Productions with From disco to disco.




A 1997 house hit from one American and two German blokes.


Southern Culture.... aka SCOTS follows with Camel Walk.




Album: Dirt Track Date, 1997.

Comments are meagre but your servant's a bit f*cked up. Nite.


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THOMAS SOWELL: 'GUNS SAVE LIVES'.

Merely looking at the faces of Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza, it's clear that already prior to their acts of terror they belonged in a High Security Funny Farm. As anyone with an objective mind and who has spent a minimum of time on basic research knows, guns, or rather the free possession of guns in the US, was not the problem with the murders committed by these loons. The mere fact that people of the calibre of Loughner and Lanza would have found guns and assault weapons ANYWAY, even in a country with strict gun control laws, is such a glaring truth that it is difficult to believe people can believe otherwise. No. It seems to me the mental health of these individuals was the problem. And it also seems to me that there is an undeniable correlation between mental health and being brought up in a dysfunctional family.

We all know one of the main reasons for dysfunctional families: the war that's being waged on traditional families, in its fifth decade now, by the Left.

Leftists have a habit of creating havoc in a society. Afterwards they will always propose bad solutions for problems of which they were the cause.


Thomas Sowell has a very astute angle on the gun control debate, albeit not from the mental health angle. But it is very much worth a careful read. From Townhall, April 2, 2013, 'Guns save lives':

"We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches numerous television newscasts may never learn that guns also save lives-- much less see any hard facts comparing how many lives are lost and how many are saved.

But that trade-off is the real issue, not the Second Amendment or the National Rifle Association, which so many in the media obsess about. If guns cost more lives than they save, we can always repeal the Second Amendment. But if guns save more lives than they cost, we need to know that, instead of spending time demonizing the National Rifle Association.

The defensive use of guns is usually either not discussed at all in the media or else is depicted as if it means bullets flying in all directions, like the gunfight at the OK Corral. But most defensive uses of guns do not involve actually pulling the trigger.

If someone comes at you with a knife and you point a gun at him, he is very unlikely to keep coming, and far more likely to head in the other direction, perhaps in some haste, if he has a brain in his head. Only if he is an idiot are you likely to have to pull the trigger. And if he is an idiot with a knife coming after you, you had better have a trigger to pull.




Surveys of American gun owners have found that 4 to 6 percent reported using a gun in self-defense within the previous five years. That is not a very high percentage but, in a country with 300 million people, that works out to hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of guns per year.

Yet we almost never hear about these hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of guns from the media, which will report the killing of a dozen people endlessly around the clock.

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

....

More children may die in bathtub accidents than in shooting accidents, but you are not likely to read that in most newspapers or see it on television newscasts. Some in the media inflate the number of children killed by counting as children the members of criminal teenage gangs who shoot each other in their turf fights.

Many seize upon statistics which show that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates. Yet they ignore other countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, but which have much higher murder rates, such as Brazil, Russia and Mexico.

Even in the case of Britain, London had a much lower murder rate than New York during the years after New York State's 1911 Sullivan Law imposed very strict gun control, while anyone could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked in the 1950s.

Today, virtually the entire law-abiding population of Britain is disarmed-- and gun crimes are vastly more common. Gun control laws make crime a safer occupation when victims are unarmed..."

Well said, or rather written. Too bad these wise words will, as usual, get lost in the wind forever for five hundred million Europeans who are deliberately kept dumb by their moral betters and their mercenaries the whorenalists.

To finish, Americans should TAKE NOTICE of the names of these traitors:




Take notice of their party affiliation please.


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HAPPY EASTER!!!

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SATURDAY NIGHT PAUL WELLER, DINOSAUR JR.

Excellent single from Paul Weller, The Changingman.




From the album Stanley Road (1995).



Dinosaur Jr. with Take a run at the sun.




Dinosaur Jr formed in 1984 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Front man is J Mascis.


Goede nacht.


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RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, EMPEROR OF HYPOCRITES.

Good article over at American Thinker by Steven Simpson, Turkey's Erodgan and the Zenith of Hypocrisy:

"Turkey's Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is once again engaging in his favorite political pastime - Israel-bashing.
Late last month at a U.N. convention held ironically to promote religious tolerance, Erdoğan lambasted Israel by calling Zionism "a crime against humanity." Indeed, Erdoğan even outdid the biggest anti-Israel institution in the world - the United Nations - which in 1975 passed its infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution.

But Erdoğan's continuous contempt for Israel shows the arrogance and hypocrisy of Turkey. For if there has ever been a country in the Middle East guilty of committing crimes against humanity, it is Turkey. Indeed, next to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, 20th-century Turkey ranks right up there when it comes to massacres, rapes, expulsions, and rapine perpetrated against ethnic and religious minorities - namely Armenians, Greeks, and Kurds.
Before documenting Turkey's crimes against other people, it should first be noted that today's Turkey has for all intents and purposes become an Islamic republic in everything but name only. The so-called "Turkish-Israeli" alliance has been in tatters since Erdoğan came to power in 2003. Aside from veering Turkey on an Islamist course - and cause - the Turks (even with Obama's "apology tour" that began in Turkey back in 2009) remain extremely anti-American. This writer back in 2010 documented Erdoğan's democratic ascent to power, his ideology and goals, and what an Islamist Turkey means to America, Israel, and the West in general.

.....

This now leaves us with Erdoğan's hypocrisy in lecturing Israel about supposed "war crimes" and leads us to actual war crimes perpetrated by Turkey during the 20th century - crimes that still go on today against the Kurds. It is a record that not only has caused oceans of blood to be spilled, but still has repercussions felt to this day.


Probably the most well-known war crime that Turkey engaged in was the slaughter - if not genocide - perpetrated against the Armenians in the first two decades of the 20th century. In fact, the Turks were already slaughtering Armenians in the late 19th century in what has come to be known as "the Hamidian massacres." Estimates of the slaughter range from hundreds of thousands to millions. In any event, Turkey has consistently and constantly denied that such crimes against the Armenians took place. Turkey is so sensitive to the charge of genocide that when the U.S. Congress in 2010 finally passed a resolution condemning this crime, Turkey threatened "serious consequences" to the "partnership" between America and Turkey. Ironically, Barack Obama, who had the audacity to say back in 2007 that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," sought to stop the congressional resolution on the Armenian genocide.
Continuing with Turkish war crimes, and the hypocrisy of the neo-Ottoman crypto-Sultan Erdoğan, there were the massacres and expulsions of the Greeks from their ancestral homelands. This is another Turkish crime against humanity that is little-known, and even less spoken or written about. "The Pontian Genocide" took place between the years of 1916 and 1922. Again, estimates vary in the casualty rate, but the slaughter could have been as close to 1,000,000 Greeks killed. This doesn't even take into account the surviving 1.5 million Greeks who lived in Asia Minor (Anatolia) for millennia before being expelled by the Turks to European Greece during this era.

Finally, there are the Kurds. If there was ever an authentic Middle Eastern minority of Muslims that deserves a nation-state, it is the Kurds. While Islamist governments in Iran and Turkey (as well as the Arab world) talk about "Islamic solidarity" when it comes to the so-called "Palestinians," there is not even a syllable of talk regarding the plight of the Kurds. The Kurds have been killed and suppressed by Arab, Persian, and Turk for centuries, all of whom see the legitimate aim of the Kurds to establish their own state as a threat to the status quo of continuous Arab, Persian, and Turkish imperialism.
While the Kurds are spread out over Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, it has been in the last country that the Kurds have basically been written out of history by the Turks. The Turkish quest to deny any semblance of a Kurdish existence has been so bizarre that Turkey even banned the Kurdish language during the years 1983-1999 and routinely referred to them as "mountain Turks." To this day, Turkey routinely crosses the Syrian and Iraqi borders to fight against "Kurdish terrorists."

This background on Turkish war crimes is just a brief sketch of the brutal actions that Turkey has committed over the decades (if not centuries). The next time the arrogant, bellicose, and venomous Erdoğan along with his fellow Islamists lectures Israel about "crimes against humanity," they should look in the mirror and admit to true war crimes..."

Erdogan is nothing less than a scoundrel, having even the nerve to exhort Turks living in Western countries to remain Turks and not to integrate.



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE STRANGLERS, THE BREEDERS.

Funny number by The Stranglers, Let me introduce you to the family.




From the 1981 album La Folie.


The Breeders with Cannonball. From the 1993 album Last Splash.





Despite the obvious talent (Kim Deal came from the Pixies, Tanya Donelly from Throwing Muses), The Breeders remained - remain, they still tour - a one hit wonder.


Nite.


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DENNIS PRAGER ON THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA.

The older I get the more I tend to think that to hold leftist views is actually a sign of mental derangement. One cannot deny that the efforts of the 'Old Left' during, say, the first half of the twentieth century in securing essential rights for the working class, women, the elderly, deserve the highest praise. But somehow, somewhere in the mid-sixties, things started to go wrong for the left. Perhaps it was modern media which brought home to westerners the appalling conditions in which the greater part of humanity still lived, thereby inducing guilt for 'having it so good'. Perhaps it was a series of vicious nest-crapping philosophers - Derrida, Sartre, Marcuse - who made it their life project to poison the minds of generations of students.

Either way, since let's say the sixties the Left generally pursues goals and interests that are simply harmful to our own people and our own societies. A good example is given by Dennis Prager in a column over at Creators.com:

MARIJUANA: ANOTHER GIFT OF THE LEFT TO AMERICA'S YOUTH.

"Denver television station CBS4 reports that Colorado has seen a sharp spike in marijuana use among teenagers since Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 last November legalizing recreational use of the drug. As described in The Economist, along with a Washington State measure also legalizing marijuana, Amendment 64 is "an electoral first not only for America but for the world."

That means two American states are to the left of the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and every other liberal country regarding marijuana.

CBS4 quotes a number of local high school students:

"I've seen a lot more people just walking down the street smoking (joints)," high school student Irie Johnson said.

"In high school it has kind of gotten out of hand," student Alaina Tanenbaum said.

According to the CBS4 report, based in part on data from a local drug testing lab: "Experts say the test results show that children are getting higher than ever with alarming levels of THC, marijuana's active ingredient, in their bodies."

The massive increase in both the number of users and the amount of marijuana used by young people is precisely what I, and many others, predicted.

It was easy to predict.

When something desirable is made easier to obtain, more people will obtain it. It is difficult to imagine an exception to this common sense observation.

So, legalizing marijuana is foolish because it leads to far more use of the drug and the availability of ever more potent forms. But the foolishness doesn't end there. Equally foolish is that as a society we have made peace with marijuana while making war on tobacco. This has been a classic example of upside down thinking, and we are reaping exactly what we have sown. We have produced a generation of young Americans who would never put a cigarette or cigar near their lips but who increasingly get high on pot.

Yes, tobacco -- specifically cigarettes -- kills and marijuana doesn't.

But, forgive the ultimate political incorrectness, young people would do much better in life if they smoked tobacco rather than weed.

First, tobacco doesn't kill young people. When it kills, it generally kills much older people. Moreover, according to a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, if you stop smoking cigarettes by age 44, you will lose only one more year of life than a person who never smoked.

Second, regular pot smokers increasingly tune out of life, becoming what are known as potheads, or, to put it bluntly, losers.

Third, as noted in the CBS4 report, "new studies that have been published say the risk of a car accident increases two-fold after someone consumes pot." In other words, innocent human beings -- sometimes whole families -- are more likely to be maimed, paralyzed and killed by pot smokers than by cigarette smokers.

For myriad reasons, then, I would far prefer my teenager indulge in cigarettes -- not to mention cigars -- than pot. Anyone who thinks that pot is less harmful to a teenager than tobacco is fooling himself -- and his teenager.

If this is not obvious, ponder these questions: Would you rather your airplane pilot smoke pot or tobacco while flying? How would Britain have fared in World War II if Winston Churchill had smoked pot instead of cigars?

In terms of the effects of tobacco and pot on the smoker while smoking, there is simply no comparison between pot and tobacco.

What the left has done to America's youth in the last 40 or so years is so damaging as to be unforgiveable. They have ruined public school education; left them with so much debt that they will likely be the first American generation to live materially inferior to the their parents; and robbed their innocence with sex education classes, now beginning in kindergarten in Chicago and elsewhere. Now they are making marijuana available to more kids and in greater potency than ever before.

But they have left them with higher self-esteem."

Damn right.


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TEN YEARS AGO: THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ.

Sorry. I just lost my text. I know that this sounds lame, but I have neither the time nor the energy to reconstruct what I just wrote. I was diagnosed with cancer of the bone marrow in November 2012, have until now undergone 17 chemiotherapies, and still have my company to run. Which means that not only my time but also my energy is very severely limited.

Suffice to say that ten years on, I still squarely endorse the Bush Administration's decision to invade Iraq. Those who were for the war, were right. Those who were against were and are dead wrong.

A salute to the brave Coalition troops, the Americans up front. Our throughts and prayers should go to those who paid the ultimate price, as well as those who still bear the consequences of wounds inflicted during the campaign.

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SATURDAY NIGHT L7, SPLIT ENZ.

L7 with Pretend we're dead.



Pro abortion c*nts from LA. It's prolly no coincidence that this single, their most successful one, was drawn from an album produced by Butch Vig, Bricks are Heavy (1992). What Vig touches usually becomes if not gold, then at any rate silver.

Split Enz with Message to my girl. From the 1983 album Conflicting Emotions.



Yup, that's a young Neil Finn. After Split Enz's 1984 breakup (though there've been many reunions over the years), Finn would go on with several projects, the best well known one Crowded House of course.

Slaap lekker en nog een fijn weekend hé.

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BILL WHITTLE ON THE SEQUESTRATION.

As per usual, a smack in your face video by Bill Whittle, on the fallacy by the Dems and their Ueber-Mogul Obama as they tried to depict the sequestration as something like akin to a fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.



Poor, poor Europe in the grip of the leftist media. America has a plethora of erudite, sound, convincing and utterly decent rightwing intellectuals. And 500 million Europeans are carefully shielded off of their influence by the scoundrels in our national broadcasters.

Oh, and our comrade-in-arms Cambrian Dissenters has some good things to say about BHO's response to the sequestration. Go check it out.

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MELANIE GRIFFITH RIPS DAVID CAMERON ON IMMIGRATION.

If only there were more like her. Melanie Griffith has some very valid points to say on the boundless immigration ruining the UK, and simultaneously explains what the slimy, traitorous creature known as David Cameron, UK PM, really stands for. From our friends at Gates of Vienna:



As long as we Conservatives keep getting leaders who in fact want us to become more leftist, there's no salvation for our countries, our economies, our heritage... our people. Far, far too many conserative leaders, MP's, and others in positions of power are traitors to the cause.

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SATURDAY NIGHT NICKELBACK, HEART.

Nickelback with How you remind me. From the 2001 album Silver side up.



Canadians from Hanna, Alberta. Currently based in Vancouver. Frontman is Chad Kroeger.

Heart with Crazy on You.



From the iconic album Dreamboat Annie (1976).

Goede nacht.

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DEVENTER, THE NETHERLANDS: MUEZZIN NOW ALLOWED TO CALL MUSLIMS TO PRAYER FROM THE MINARET EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.

In Deventer, a Dutch town in the north of The Netherlands, the mosque's muezzin has been allowed to call muslims to prayer every day.

It wasn't bad enough that until now, the filthy infidels living in the neighborhood had to bear with the muezzin's call to prayer 'only' on Friday. The lunatics sitting in Deventer's municipal council, in their infinite wisdom, have ordained that from now on the azan can be heard every day of the week. IN ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES, islam is proving itself a daily nightmare for the hapless non-muslims living there, who are either being terrorized or downright forced to flee. There's no such niceties there when it comes to facilitating the worshipping of other gods than allah, to the contrary. But over here, the historically ignorant multiculti scum that passes for our rulers are litterally tripping over each other to accommodate a hateful, mysogynistic, homophobic and utterly backward 'religion' that has given the world very little - and then only a thousand years ago and to a large extent not even something original.


From HLN, March 8, 2013:

"The Centrum Moskee in Deventer (Overijssel province) can from now on call the faithful to prayer every day between midday and 2pm.
Until now the azan (call to prayer) was only allowed on Friday, but the mosquegoers wanted to hear the sound every day. Thereupon the town council investigated where the characteristic sound would generally be heard and subsequently distributed among 495 households around Smyrna Street a bulletin of inquiry, in which people could indicate whether or not they objected to the azan.
Of those questioned, 167 households let it be known, anonymously, that they did not want to hear the noise, a spokesman for the town said. Because that's a minority, the city council now allows the daily call to prayer. The mosque has to install a volume limiter to keep the noise level under a certain treshold.
According to Henk Kelder who lives a stone's throw away from the mosque, the noise isn't bad at all. "I 've been living here since before the mosque was built and I never bothered about the azan and actually I'm always at home on Fridays" he explains. "Our churches make noise too and you never hear someone complain about that." Kelder is chairman of a neighborhood committee and says that his committee doesn't involve itself with the mosque. "The only thing that's bothersome is parking. And then especially on Friday noon, then it's very busy in the street" says Kelder."

Het Laatste Nieuws wouldn't be Het Laatste Nieuws if the only Dutchman they gave a forum too wouldn't be one who couldn't be bothered with a half-crazed muezzin yelling the neighborhood together every day of the week. The HLN editors probably got a boner upon finding out that very same Dutchman was found willing to rip Christianity en passant, since 'churches make noise too and no-one complains about that'.

Apart from this very saddening 'interview', one can note AGAIN that islam never gives an inch back. First they started with their mosques in garages. Then they built, partly with infidel taxpayer money, a brand new mosque. Then they tinkered and negotiated until they got permission for a call to prayer on Fridays. And now they have gotten permission for a call to prayer EVERY DAY.

Next thing you know, they'll be asking for sharia. And while the Deventer city council is anxious to accommodate its muslim invaders so as not to appear 'intolerant', an estimated 100,000 Copts have fled Egypt since the Morsi takeover.








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SATURDAY NIGHT THE STROKES, DAVID BOWIE.

The Strokes with Someday.

Blokes from NYC who formed in 1999. Someday is from their 2001 debut album Is this it.

David Bowie with Never let me down.

I guess everybody knows the guy.

Nite.

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TEN YEARS OF DOWNEASTBLOG!!!

It's the last day of February, so I have to be quick. DowneastBlog is feting it's tenth anniversary this month. Indeed, the very first post went up on February 11, 2003. Initially a project of three Mainers, Tom, Kerry and Scott, one of them, Kerry, hauled me on board somewhere in the autumn of 2003 after getting acquainted on some Iraq forum. So my posts proper did not start until later that year. Be that as it may, DowneastBlog was online as of FEB 2003. What I never envisaged at the time was that it would be me, the Belgian outsider, who'd keep the candle burning ten years on. After barely two years, both Tom and Kerry stopped posting. Scott held on a little longer. Anyway, I guess I still have to thank Tom for keeping this blog in the air.






So here I am, ten years and possibly about 1,800 of my own posts later. We never acquired a numerous readership. But I guess we must have a few aficionados. I don't regret anything I've written and stick to the basic validity of the judgments I have made over the years. I take nothing back. I haven't flipped ideologically, to the contrary. No about-turns. I'm as proudly conservative, if not more, than ten years ago. I'm convinced we have to carry on this fight - we, rightwingers - for we CANNOT allow the unholy alliance of the left, the watermelons and islam tear the very fabric of our society apart. Granted, it's an uphill battle. They have the media channels. They can keep fooling the bazillions of 'low-info' voters. But giving up is not an option.


Enough grand words for today. I'm sick (literally; even very, very sick. More about that in a couple of weeks). I'm dead tired. Still having to run my company in a very bad economic crisis (sales just about collapsed over the past months). But I have to carry on.


Nite.


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NIGHTMARE ON ANTWERP'S STREETS.

A flying pig moment today over at Het Laatste Nieuws:

"HALF OF ALL THE PUPILS IN ANTWERP'S MUNICIPAL BASIC EDUCATION IS ENROLLED IN ISLAMIC COURSES"

"Currently, in Antwerp's municipal basic education net, a total of 5,165 students follow islamic religious courses. That's 49.3 per cent of the total number of students following one or another course dealing with religion or ethics. Second comes non-confessional morality with 2,907 students (27.7 per cent). Catholic lessons come in only third, with 2,152 students (20.5 per cent).


.... The numbers come from Vlaams Belang member of the municipal council Wim Van Osselaer, who asked Antwerp's town selectman for education, Claude Marinower (Open VLD) to provide them. The number of muslim students has been steadily on the rise for a couple of years. In 2007-2008 it was 'only' 33.6 per cent, according to Vlaams Belang it was 45.6 per cent in 2012. 'The spectacular rise of the number of muslim students in Antwerps educational net is frightening me' says Van Osselaer. 'Almost half of the students enlisted in Antwerps municipal educational institutions are now being raised in an islamic culture. All of them are thus to a certain degree influenced by islam, of which the norms are barely compatible (my translation) with human rights and our European freedoms"

May justice be done one day. That those responsible for importing this backward, murderous despicable 'religion' in our civilized world be punished. And punished severely.

MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT GEORGE BENSON, GOO GOO DOLLS.

George Benson. On Broadway.





Originally a 1963 hit for The Drifters, On Broadway was covered probably more than twenty times, but only got real extensive airplay after Benson's 1978 version (album 'Weekend in LA'). Benson, a Pittsburgh, PA native, has been making music and touring continually since 1963 - and I'm not even counting his 1954 stint as Little George Benson. I wonder what Rihanna or Beyonce will be doing in 2063?



Goo Goo Dolls with Iris.





GGD formed in 1986 in Buffalo, NY. Seems to me they only came to prominence with this hit, drawn from the soundtrack of the 1998 pooper City of Angels (with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage).


Goede nacht.


MFBB.